now Nintendo recently filed a patent for Game Boy emulation which would allow
folks to have the Game Boy experience on devices that range from their mobile
phones all the way to the displays on the backs of the seats in front of them
on trains and airplanes cool right wait hold on a minute lus what exactly is
emulation are they going to cut open all those seats and stuff game boys inside
where will they get so many game boys are they going to try to take mine no
whoa hold on slow down there turbo they don't need actual game Boys in fact
that's exactly the point of an emulator to use software combined with high-speed
or specialized Hardware to effectively fake the functionality of another piece
of hardware for the purpose of running or debugging programs so that Game Boy
emulator is just a software program that runs on Hardware that is nothing like an
actual game boy but is able to imitate its functionality so the game software
itself never knows it's not running on a real Game Boy neat hey yeah Linus that
sounds super awesome so can I emulate the Titan supercomputer on like my phone
and run complex weather simulations in my
pocket no uh even with intimate knowledge of how a device and the
software it runs works the non-specialized processing power
required to fake a given functionality purely in software especially one for
which highly specialized purpose-built Hardware has been developed is often an
order of magnitude greater than the original or more and in many cases
especially where emulation is being used to preserve the gaming experiences of
old games or software that wouldn't otherwise run on Modern computers a fair
bit of brute forcing it is required to achieve sufficient
performance okay lonus sweet then so I can run like Odell Lake on my Alienware
riveting I'm glad you made a video about this actually emulation is not just for
old stuff it's often used in the design of future products as well one of my
favorite examples of this is the recurring Scandal of oh my goodness the
game console maker X was using a PC to run their demos at video game convention
y well of course they were it's called a
development kit imagine a world where a new game console came out and then you
had to wait the typical 2 to three years that a AAA game takes before you could
actually play anything on it programmers use devkits often developed internally
to write code for systems that aren't actually finished being designed yet so
that once the hardware is finalized there's already software for it and
programmable Hardware like a modern video game console is just one example
of this it can be even more useful in the design of specialized Hardware
called an embedded system where the hardware and software need to work
tightly together to reduce power consumption and design complexity
keeping costs low emulation of the hardware allows faster testing of
software which allows faster refinement of the hardware multiple cycles of which
can occur without ever actually physically manufacturing anything
efficient right so there you have it emulation has the advantages of
flexibility potentially improved functionality anti-aliasing add-ons for
PlayStation 1 games anyone and when done well lower Hardware costs but with the
drawbacks of sometimes imperfect compatibility and usually much higher
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